London. Hart Davis. 1953. Reprint. Translated. Introduction by Peter Fleming. Map, colour frontispiece, black and white photographic plates, xiii + 288pp, edges and price clipped dustjacket foxed, name of a prior owner partially erased front free endpaper, a good copy. The author was tutor and confidant of the young Dalai..... More
New York. Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. Black and white photographic illustrations, index, bilbiography, notes, xiii + 334pp, very good hardback copy in dustjacket, 240 x 159mm. Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. Raising his..... More
Cambridge. The University Press. 1998. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xiv + 393pp, chronology, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. "A memorable and sensitive portrait of one of the greatest yet least-known explorers and archaeologists of the twentieth century. Revered in the West as the colossus of Central Asian scholarship, in..... More
New York. Kodansha. 1994. 431pp, bibliography, index, very good in dustjacket. First published in Britain in the same year under the title "On Secret Service East of Constantinople". (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171076). More
New York. Norton. 1985. First American edition. Maps, illustrations, 252pp, bibliography, index, edges trifle foxed, dustjacket browned in places, good copy. This book, the last in Peter Hopkirk's trilogy set in Central Asia, tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt between the wars to set the..... More
New York. Kodansha. 1992. Reprint. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 562pp, index, upper edge a trifle soiled, spine a little faded, very good hardback copy in a dustjacket. A fascinating, and now classic account, of the European powers' fight for supremacy in Central Asia. (When referring to this..... More
New Haven. Yale Uni. Press. 1999. Map, colour and black and white photographic plates, xii + 212pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket. Neat chop of a prior owner title page. Very good. Account of the author's travels in the Gobi desert in which he captures the rich and varied culture of the..... More
Geneva. Nagel. 1969. Translated from the Russian by James Hogarth. Colour and black and white photographic plates, 250pp, index, notes, bibliography, hardback. Ancient Civilizations series. Noticeable foxing to upper edge and foxing to upper portions of both endpapers, otherwise in very good condition. A survey of the archaelogical treasures and..... More
Nibondh $ Co., Ltd., c.1950. second edition revised and enlarged. 193pp, slight creasing corners of endpapers, sticker upper corner of cover, slightly worn paperback copy, otherwise good copy. Topics include: Vocabulary. Conversational Phrases and Sentences, and Common Phrases. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171046). More
London. The Folio Society. 1996. Reprint. Endpaper maps, maps, colour frontispiece and full page colour plates, 310pp, index, a very good clothbound hardback copy in card slipcase. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 170973). More
Singapore. Universiti Malaya, 1957-1965. Volume 1 Number 1: 80pp. Volume 1 Number 2: 160pp. Volume 2 Number 2: 96pp. Volume 2 Number 7: 112pp, a previous owner's signature front free endpaper. : Black and white illustrations, touch of foxing endpapers, covers a little worn, cellotape marks corners of two leaves..... More
